Philosophical Disquisitions: Another Generation

By Denise M Issert

Have you read and enjoyed Issert's first two books in her Philosophical Disquisitions series? Philosophical Disquisitions (2017) and Philosophical Disquisitions: Another Day (2018)? If you have great; if not, don't worry. You needn't have read them to dive into Philosophical Disquisitions: Another Generation. All three books contain stories that highlight family lives vibrantly steeped in Midwest values and traditions. Denise Issert's Philosophical Disquisition series paints a cheerful and sentimental family portrait of a transitional period in American rural local history that has almost been lost to memory. She recalls with touching detail the way life was lived by the hard-working farmer families of the Illinois prairie after the middle of the last century. Her backward glances bring her recollections of grandparents, friends, neighbors and other characters into a present that is rich with her own children and extended family in that changing world. Her troubled reflections about the disagreement with a family member about whether or not it is correct to acknowledge the family's Confederate past is a tour de force, telescoping past into present, private into public. This series is lighthearted and serious, charming and hopeful.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0578502216
• ISBN13: 9780578502212
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Issert
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"